MAEC’s CI4E Resource Hub offers an equity-focused online survey tool to explore how your team centers equity at the Understanding the System stage. Afterward, you’ll receive a custom resource list that supports an equity-driven continuous improvement process.
Description: The online survey tool contains a series of equity questions for each CI stage that serve as an entry point for improvement teams to examine how their leadership, structures, and processes support equity work and areas to consider.
When using this resource, keep in mind: Intentionally infusing, prioritizing, and sustaining equity practices to an improvement project often requires a mindset change for those engaged in this work. Teams should consider the following areas during the planning and implementation of the improvement process:
• Representation: How your team’s knowledge, social identities, and biases impact your work
• Structures: How the design of your team’s systems embed or disrupt equity
• Process: How equity plays a role in your team’s decision-making
In this recording,NWRESD staff members voiceover their approach to implementing anti-racist strategies across their organization. You can view their teacher activity here.
This activity was shared by NWRESD and used to facilitate conversation on "How to be antiracist educators." It has two parts to encourage participants to engage in vigilant self-awareness and the application of their learning.
This is a guide for conducting empathy interviews. The goal an empathy interview is to gain a deeper understanding of a user’s experience of the issue you are working on.
This resource was created as part of the project, Data Strategy and Google Suite Reconfiguration, listed through Catalyst:Ed.
Our Data Sharing Agreement template is what we use to outline our partnership, including what data will be provided by the districts participating in our network.
The District Guide for Creating Indicators for Early Warning Systems presents extensive research about early warning indicators and actionable strategies and considerations for developing and implementing early warning indicators.
This document was used at our initial convening for improvement teams to understand what they will receive from the Hub (i.e. continuous improvement coaching, support in data analysis etc.) and to set expectations on what work they are committing to. It includes a timeline for the network and a team commitment signature page that allows designation of team roles.
As you continue to test out new ideas through CI, check out these resources to ensure equity is the core of every idea.
The resources in this collection will help your team explore different approaches used by schools and districts with 9th grade on-track goals. You will be able to access protocols, research, tools, and exemplars that offer evidence-based approaches to improvement in this area.
